Mulayam meets Akhilesh, officers on Muzaffarnagar violence

With the situation still tense in Muzaffarnagar, SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav today held a meeting with chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and senior officers and took stock of the situation.

Yadav sought to know from the officers why the situation could not be controlled yet and the measures taken for maintaining law and order in Muzaffarnagar.

The meeting holds significance after Governor B L Joshi's report to the Centre in which he gave details of the incident and also lapses on part of the government.

"Mulayam is serious about what happened in Muzaffarnagar...the incident is condemnable. chief minister Akhilesh Yadav is himself monitoring the situation till 2 AM in the night," SP spokesman and Cabinet minister Rajendra Chowdhury told reporters after the meeting.

Asked whether officers are not paying heed to the chief minister, Chowdhury said, "No officer has the courage to defy orders of the CM."

Claiming that opposition was working in an undemocratic way, Chowdhury alleged they were involved in inciting and fuelling passions and added that demand for imposition of President's Rule by BJP, Congress and BSP was "unjustified".

"We stopped 84 kosi yatra and thwarted attempt to communalise atmosphere of the state...In Muzaffarnagar incident also, action will be taken against those who had taken law into their hands," Chowdhury said.